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Oficina Permacultura para crianças / Portugal

Silvia Floresta
Se voltasses atrás à tua infância para aprender algo que pudesse mudar a tua maneira de ver a vida, o que seria? Aprender a observar e entender a natureza é cada vez mais urgente nos dias de hoje! Esta oficina oferece a possibilidade às crianças de começarem a trilhar um caminho sustentável. - ...
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Permacultura para crianças

Permacultura para crianças
Missão ❀Inspirar as crianças a viverem permacultura. Criar uma comunidade de crianças conscientes. ❀A melhor maneira de introduzir o conceito de sustentabilidade para as crianças é vivê-la!❀ "We are the Weather Makers" by Tim Flannery. "
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PDC / 9 a 21 junho 2014 / Odeceixe / Algarve / Portugal

Silvia Floresta
9 a 21 junho 2014 Odeceixe / Algarve / Portugal Curso Certificado de Design em Permacultura teórico – prático, através de aulas práticas, apresentações audiovisuais, intercâmbio de grupo, observação profunda da natureza, vivência comunitária, os participantes irão adquirir conhecimentos e habil...
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European Patent Office blunder leads to grant of a new patent on conventional breeding

Silvia Floresta
20 February 2014 Munich. The company, H.M. Clause, which belongs to the French co-operative group, Limagrain yesterday was granted a European Patent on watermelons (EP 1816908). The patented watermelon plant is supposedly even more multibranching and smaller fruits than usual, but this cannot b...
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PDC / 9 a 21 junho 2014 / Odeceixe / Algarve / Portugal

Silvia Floresta
9 a 21 junho 2014 Odeceixe / Algarve / Portugal Curso Certificado de Design em Permacultura teórico – prático, através de aulas práticas, apresentações audiovisuais, intercâmbio de grupo, observação profunda da natureza, vivência comunitária, os participantes irão adquirir conhecimentos e hab...
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Chicory ( Cichorium intybus )

Silvia Floresta
    This is plant grows up to 1,8 meters tall. It has leaves clustered at the base of the stem and some leaves on the stem. The base leaves resemble those of the dandelion. The flowers are sky blue and stay open only on sunny days. Chicory has a milky juice. Look for chicory in old fields, was...

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Chicory ( Cichorium intybus )

Silvia Floresta
    This is plant grows up to 1,8 meters tall. It has leaves clustered at the base of the stem and some leaves on the stem. The base leaves resemble those of the dandelion. The flowers are sky blue and stay open only on sunny days. Chicory has a milky juice. Look for chicory in old fields, was...

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Sapney Farm PDC 2014 Slideshow

Roman Eisenkoelbl
International Certified PDC Plus - South India - February 2014 we just finished our 18 day February PDC here in South India!  have a look at the slideshow and enjoy...........   https://www.dropbox.com/s/bgow7v7zq6lar32/SapneyPDC2014.mp4
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Dancing Moose Farm

Dancing Moose Farm
Dancing Moose Farm is an 18 acre property in a mountain valley in Northern Utah. Focusing on permaculture education, sustainable living and the arts.
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Making Swales with a Tractor and Loader

Dale Bunger
First I start by laying out the path of the swale with my trusty A-frame level. I built this A-frame so the legs would be 5' apart and I stick in a flag every time I move it across the ground. This allows me to easily measure the length of the swale by simply counting the flags. Then I start on ...
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Swales, Fruit, and Nuts

Dale Bunger
I read Mark Shepards book, Restoration Agriculture, and it really worked with my view of how our land should work. We walked the property, did several zone layouts, and came up with our ideal spot to start. We ended up with 4 swales, completly on contour, and planted 2 different polycultures i...
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Superadobe Workshop: 25 March - 2 April 2014

Chris Dyson
Join us and build a 10 foot dome that will serve as housing in our new village. Superadobe is a dome building technique which utilizes tubular, woven polypropylene bags and barbed wire. It was popularized by architect Nader Khalili at the Cal-Earth institute in Hesperia, California. The b...

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Passive Solar Greenhouse with Integrated Aquaponics System

Jacob Freepons
    Designing for an efficient greenhouse in the California high desert. The proposed design would include an earthbag foundation, strawbale insulation on the east & west walls, earth-berming of the north wall and many other features.  You can find more info on our designs at Permacu...
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Honey Bees survive brutal cold!

Richard Larson
In my possesion are seven hives, five of which are in a shed, with two left out in the elements. This winter I tried different techniques, as last year all but one hive succumbed to mold issues and mice. In response to learning the air inside the hives, but outside the cluster, is the same tempe...
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Upcoming Intros to Permaculture and PDC course in Vancouver!

Kym  Chi
Free introduction to Permaculture : Sunshine Coast March 16Free Social Permaculture Activation Richmond, March 18Free Introduction to Permaculture : Langara March 22 Permaculture and Placemaking : March 8 We are also joyed to announce a new Permaculture Design Certificate course convieniently o...

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Fremont Township Community Garden

Fremont Township Community Garden
THE MISSION To create and maintain a beautiful, productive, low maintenance, organic garden that will demonstrate gardening techniques (such as companion planting, cover crops, flowers, herbs, mulching, semi-permanent in ground beds, edible perennials, and berries), while providing an educationa...
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Early Summer Permaculture & Research Internship in the Rainforest of Ecuador

Ryan Lynch
Third Millennium Alliance (TMA) was founded in 2007 with the purchase of 100 acres and the establishment of the Jama-Coaque Reserve (JCR) in the western province of Manabí, Ecuador, between the cities of Jama and Pedernales, and four kilometers inland. Now encompassing over 1,000 acres, the Jama-...
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Humusbeings garden

Humusbeings garden
Home garden with edible and perennial plants. Our own diverse habitat.
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